Fix macOS 26 (Tahoe) exaggerated rounded corners
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Re: Fix macOS 26 (Tahoe) exaggerated rounded corners
#2The title is misleading: this only modifies the desktop rounded corners, not the app window corners (heavily discussed recently at HN and elsewhere).
The blog post about this is slightly interesting, but mostly feels like a candidate’s position paper on rounded corners, rather than an newsworthy or technical explanation: https://medium.com/@makalin/reclaiming-the-screen-a-develope...
The core innovation is the ctx.fill calls here: https://github.com/makalin/CornerFix/blob/main/Sources/Corne...
Re: Fix macOS 26 (Tahoe) exaggerated rounded corners
#3Your GitHub repo and the associated medium article do a great job of describing the problem and the solution that you settled on. I don’t understand why you didn’t include a screenshot of what this looks like though. The suitability of your tool depends on what it looks like.
Please, always include screenshots in open source projects that are aesthetic in nature.
Re: Fix macOS 26 (Tahoe) exaggerated rounded corners
#4Your GitHub repo and the associated medium article do a great job of describing the problem and the solution that you settled on. I don’t understand why you didn’t include a screenshot of what this looks like though. The suitability of your tool depends on what it looks like. Please, always include screenshots in open source projects that are aesthetic in nature.
Yeah, I am also confused they didn’t include a screenshot (or photo in this case). It’s the first thing you’ll want to see for such a project.
Re: Fix macOS 26 (Tahoe) exaggerated rounded corners
#5The title is misleading: this only modifies the desktop rounded corners, not the app window corners (heavily discussed recently at HN and elsewhere). The blog post about this is slightly interesting, but mostly feels like a candidate’s position paper on rounded corners, rather than an newsworthy or technical explanation: https://medium.com/@makalin/reclaiming-the-screen-a-develope... The core innovation is the ctx.fi…
I still have no idea what this does. What on earth are the desktop rounded corners?
Re: Fix macOS 26 (Tahoe) exaggerated rounded corners
#6The title is misleading: this only modifies the desktop rounded corners, not the app window corners (heavily discussed recently at HN and elsewhere). The blog post about this is slightly interesting, but mostly feels like a candidate’s position paper on rounded corners, rather than an newsworthy or technical explanation: https://medium.com/@makalin/reclaiming-the-screen-a-develope... The core innovation is the ctx.fi…
I still have no idea what this does. What on earth are the desktop rounded corners?
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Re: Fix macOS 26 (Tahoe) exaggerated rounded corners
#7The title is misleading: this only modifies the desktop rounded corners, not the app window corners (heavily discussed recently at HN and elsewhere). The blog post about this is slightly interesting, but mostly feels like a candidate’s position paper on rounded corners, rather than an newsworthy or technical explanation: https://medium.com/@makalin/reclaiming-the-screen-a-develope... The core innovation is the ctx.fi…
I still have no idea what this does. What on earth are the desktop rounded corners?
Macs have rounded corners on the desktop. I.e 4 corners. It looked awesome in the CRT days because of the shape of them. These days on flat lcd screens the geometry is so good that they aren’t required to provide the same function as in CRT days but some people still like the look. I do, but i dont run extra software if i can help it especially for an aesthetic change. I used a tool like this is the past but there were incompatibility’s.
Re: Fix macOS 26 (Tahoe) exaggerated rounded corners
#8Earlier quoted context omitted.
I still have no idea what this does. What on earth are the desktop rounded corners?
Macs have rounded corners on the desktop. I.e 4 corners. It looked awesome in the CRT days because of the shape of them. These days on flat lcd screens the geometry is so good that they aren’t required to provide the same function as in CRT days but some people still like the look. I do, but i dont run extra software if i can help it especially for an aesthetic change. I used a tool like this is the past but there we…
I'm super confused. My Macbook desktop has no rounded corners. Both the menu bar and content against the bottom edge are sharp-cornered. Is this only for external screens?
Re: Fix macOS 26 (Tahoe) exaggerated rounded corners
#9Earlier quoted context omitted.
Macs have rounded corners on the desktop. I.e 4 corners. It looked awesome in the CRT days because of the shape of them. These days on flat lcd screens the geometry is so good that they aren’t required to provide the same function as in CRT days but some people still like the look. I do, but i dont run extra software if i can help it especially for an aesthetic change. I used a tool like this is the past but there we…
I'm super confused. My Macbook desktop has no rounded corners. Both the menu bar and content against the bottom edge are sharp-cornered. Is this only for external screens?
> I'm super confused. My Macbook desktop has no rounded corners. Both the menu bar and content against the bottom edge are sharp-cornered. Is this only for external screens?
Running an Apple Studio Display here, and no rounded corners at any edges. So, just for non-Apple monitors?
Re: Fix macOS 26 (Tahoe) exaggerated rounded corners
#10The title is misleading: this only modifies the desktop rounded corners, not the app window corners (heavily discussed recently at HN and elsewhere). The blog post about this is slightly interesting, but mostly feels like a candidate’s position paper on rounded corners, rather than an newsworthy or technical explanation: https://medium.com/@makalin/reclaiming-the-screen-a-develope... The core innovation is the ctx.fi…
I still have no idea what this does. What on earth are the desktop rounded corners?
Modern MacBooks models have rounded corners at the top right and top left corners of the screen, see [0]. The bottom corners don't do this and external displays don't do this. This is a stylistic choice to match the curvature of the laptop's edge. If you move your mouse along that corner it doesn't disappear behind the curve, it follows the curve.
[0] https://www.apple.com/v/macbook-air/x/images/overview/mac-pl...
